Xihe Pinellia has a good harvest, villagers increase income "good prescription"

Villagers harvested Pinellia

Xin Gansu·Daily Gansu Net reporter Guo Xiurui

Early autumn, which coincides with the Pinellia harvest season, in the standard planting demonstration garden of Chinese medicinal materials in Wangjialiang, Xinglong Town, Longnan City Xihe County , there are good harvests everywhere Joy.

Xihe County is the hometown of Pinellia in China. Nearly 70% of Pinellia in the national market comes from here. On September 5, an interview group organized by the Central Propaganda Department "Decisively defeat poverty alleviation and supervise the poor counties" came to Xinglong Town and paid attention to the important role played by the Chinese herbal medicine industry in local poverty alleviation. Pick carefully. "In a pinellia planting field, a 68-year-old woman named Zhao, a villager in Xiamiao Village, squatted on the mud to harvest pinellia. She was skilled in her actions and harvested a pot in less than 5 minutes. The woman Zhao said, planting. Pinellia has a high cost and high risk. Since the establishment of the planting demonstration garden in 2012, they have been working here to earn money. From planting, weeding, harvesting, cleaning, screening, and drying, they spend most of the year in the cooperative. The income is about 2,000 yuan. Driven by the cooperative, the Zhao women’s family was successfully lifted out of poverty in 2018. The

Hongsheng Planting and Breeding Professional Cooperative Wang Yuhong introduced that with the gradual expansion of the harvest area of ​​Pinellia ternata, the labor demand has increased sharply. More than 800 villagers harvested Pinellia, with a minimum daily salary of 120 yuan. The standard planting demonstration base for Chinese medicinal materials in Wangjialiang, Xinglong Town, involves 9 villages in 2 towns, Xinglong and Shaoyu, planting 4,300 mu of Chinese medicinal materials, including 1,800 mu of Pinellia roots. 2500 acres of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, such as Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Radix Scutellariae, etc. The base participates in 10 poverty-stricken cooperatives and 32 large-scale farmers, driving 370 farmers, including 160 poor households.

"Cooperatives across the county will develop together and let Banxia Become a leading industry for farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich. He Cheng, vice chairman of the Xihe County CPPCC and director of the Agricultural and Rural Bureau, introduced that under the guidance of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the county will build 8 demonstration bases of Chinese medicinal materials over 1,000 acres this year. Suhe, Haolin After more than 20 cooperatives in towns and villages were established in pairs, the county’s cooperative development was taken. According to the model of “unified seed supply, unified recycling, and unified sales”, it effectively solved the farmers' “difficulty in seed selection, lack of technology, difficulty in sales, and difficulty in increasing income. "The problem of "not only reduces the risk of farmers' Chinese medicinal materials planting and sales, but also increases the income of poor households.

Xihe County has a wide range of poverty, deep poverty, and difficulty in poverty alleviation. There are 223 poor villages in the county, and a file was established in 2013. At the time of the card, there were 153,800 poor people, and the poverty incidence rate was as high as 39.52%. By the end of last year, there were 48 poor villages, including 6 listed villages, and 13,233 people who had not been lifted out of poverty. The poverty incidence dropped to 3.43%. .

Xihe County Party Secretary Cao Yong introduced that in terms of industrial development, Xihe County has introduced home-based industries, rewards and subsidies, actively introduced leading agricultural enterprises, developed professional cooperatives, improved the degree of organization, and basically established the "Yi Banxia The three leading industrial systems, mainly Chinese medicinal materials, economic forests, fruits and vegetables, and animal husbandry, are only one industry for poor households this year, and the per capita income is expected to increase by 1,300 yuan.

Local villagers in the poverty alleviation workshop sort out Pinellia fruits

In summer, multiple sets of processes such as clean selection and sieving of soil are required